REGULATIONS 



GOVERNMENT 



Gettysburg National Military Park 



GETTYSBURG PENNA. 



1911 



REGULATIONS 

FOR THE 

GOVERNMENT 

OF THE 

Gettysburg National Military Park 

GETTYSBURG PENNA. 

1911 






Statutes relating to the protection 

control and use of the 
Gettysburg National Military Park 

AND THE 

regulations prescribed therefore 
BY THE Secretary of War 



STATUTES : 

An act entitled "An act to establish a National 
Military Park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania," 
Approved February 11, 1895. 



""B^ it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress 
assembled : That the Secretary of War is hereby author- 
ized to receive from the Gettysburg Battlefield Memo- 
rial Association a corporation chartered by the State of 
Pennsylvania a deed of conveyance to the United States 
of all the lands belonging to said association embracing 
about eight hundred acres more or less and being a con- 



siderable part of the Battlefield of Gettysburg together 
with all rights of way over avenues through said lands 
acquired by said association and all improvements made 
by it in and upon the same. * * * 

Section 2. That as soon as the lands aforesaid 
shall be conveyed to the United States the Secretary of 
War shall take possession of the same and such other 
lands on the battlefield as the United States have acquired 
or shall hereafter acquire by purchase or condemnation 
proceedings and the lands aforesaid shall be designated 
and known as the "Gettysburg National Park." 

Section 3. That the Gettysburg National Park 
shall subject to the supervision and direction of the 
Secretary of War be in charge of the commissioners here- 
tofore appointed by the Secretary of War for the location 
and acquisition of lands at Gettysburg and their succes- 
sors. * * * 

Section 6. That it shall be the duty of the 
Secretary of War to establish and enforce proper regula- 
tions for the custody preservation and care of the monu- 
ments now erected or which may be hereafter erected 
within the limits of the said National Military Park and 
such rules shall provide for convenient access by visitors 
to all such monuments within the Park and the ground 
included therein on such days and within such hours as 
may be designated by the Secretary of War. 

Section 7. That if any person shall destroy 
mutilate deface injure or remove except by permission of 
the Secretary of War any column statue memorial struc- 



ture or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon 
the grounds of the park by lawful authority or shall 
destroy or remove any fence railing inclosure or other 
work for the protection or ornament of said park or any 
portion thereof or shall destroy cut hack bark break down 
or otherwise injure any tree bush or shrubbery that may 
be growing upon said park or shall cut down or fell or 
remove any timber battle relic tree or trees growing or 
being upon said park or hunt within the limits of the 
park or shall remove or destroy any breastworks walls or 
other defences or shelter or any part thereof constructed 
by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the land 
or approaches to the park or shall violate any regulation 
made and published by the Secretary of War for the gov- 
ernment of visitors within the limits of said park any 
person offending or found guilty thereof before any justice 
of the peace of the county in which the offence may be 
committed shall for each and every said offence forfeit 
and pay a fine in the discretion of the justice according to 
the aggravation of the offence of not less than five nor 
more than five hundred dollars one half for the use of the 
park and the other half to the informer to be enforced 
and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts 
of like nature are now by law recoverable in the county 
where the offence may be committed." * * * 



An act entitled 'An act to prevent trespassing upon 
and providing for the protection of National Military 
Parks." Approved March 3, 1897. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives of the United States of America in Congress 
assembled : 

That every person who wilfully destroys mutilates 
defaces injures or removes any monument statue marker 
guide-post or other structure or who wilfully destroys 
cuts breaks injures or removes any tree shrub or plant 
within the limits of any National Park shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less 
than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for 
such monument statue marker guide-post or other struc- 
ture tree shrub or plant destroyed defaced injured cut or 
removed or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days 
and not more than one year or by both fine and impris- 
onment. 

Section 2. That every person who shall trespass 
upon any National Park for the purpose of hunting or 
shooting or who shall hunt any kind of game thereon 
with gun or dog or shall set trap or net or other device 
whatsoever thereon for the purpose of catching game of 
any kind shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by 
a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by im- 
prisonment for not less than thirty days or by both fine 
and imprisonment. 



Section 3. That the Superintendent or any 
guardian of such park is authorized to arrest forthwith 
any person engaged or who may have been engaged in 
committing any misdemeanor named in this act and shall 
bring such person before any United States Commissioner 
or Judge of any District or Circuit Court of the United 
States within either of the districts within which the park 
is situated and in the district within which the misde- 
meanor has been committed for the purpose of holding 
him to answer for such misdemeanor and then and there 
shall make complaint in due form. 

Section 4. That any person to whom land lying 
within any National park may have been leased who 
refuses to give up possession of the same to the United 
States after the termination of said lease and after pos- 
session has been demanded for the United States by any 
Park Commissioner or the Park Superintendent or any 
person retaining possession lying within the boundary of 
said Park which he or she may have sold to the United 
States for Park purposes and have received payment there- 
fore after the possession of the same has been demanded 
for the United States by any Park Commissioner or Park 
Superintendent shall be deemed guilty of trespass and the 
United States may maintain an action for the recovery of 
the possession of the premises so withheld in the Courts 
of the United States according to the statutes or code of 
practice of the state in which the Park may be situated. 

Section 5. This act shall apply only to the 
Military Parks of the United States. 



REGULATIONS 



•I All avenues within the Park are for the sole 

purpose of enabling visitors to view the battlefield ; they 
are in no sense public highways and must not be used for 
business or transportation purposes, or as a highway for 
travel. 

" All driving must be on the right side of the road- 

bed, but a carriage passing another in the same direction 
must pass on the left. Fast driving is prohibited. 

lil Tires of wheels to carriages having more than 

two seats must be of the following widths : Two-horse 
wagon with three seats (for six people) 2 inches ; with 
four seats (for eight people) 2 inches ; with five seats (for 
ten people) 2%. inches ; with six seats (for twelve people) 
2^ inches; with more than six seats 3/^ inches. 

IV Camping parties are forbidden without permis- 
sion of the U. S. Commission and then only upon such 
part of the lands as they may approve. Such parties will 
be held responsible for forest fires or other damages 
caused by them. 

V The carrying of any gun or trap within the 

limits of the Park is prohibited. 

V I No dog is permitted to be at large within the 

Park. Owners or custodians of any dog trespassing in 
the Park will be held responsible for such trespass. 



Vil Neither cattle, horses nor swine nor any other 

grazing animal will be permitted to roam at large or graze 
on the grounds or along the roads. Loose animals will 
be impounded, and released only on the payment of a 
suitable fine. 

Vlll No person other than authorized employees, 

except as hereinafter provided, will be permitted to reside 
permanently or to engage in any business within the Park, 
except by authority of the Secretary of War. Employees 
of the Park are not to engage in any other occupation, 
such as farming, gardening, merchandise or other private 
business, except by authority of the U. S. Commission. 

IX No drinking saloon, bar-room or gambling 

establishment will be permitted within the limits of the 
Park and all peddling or selling of anything on Sundays 
or for profit within the limits of the Park, without the 
written permit of the Commissioners, is prohibited. 

2\. Advertisements or private notices shall not be 

posted or displayed within the Park nor along the public 
roads over which jurisdiction has been ceded to the 
United States. 

XI All persons are prohibited from displacing or 

removing, writing on or marking stones, stakes, fences, 
buildings or other appurtenances. 

XII Employees of the Commission must be at all 

times courteous to visitors. Visitors are expected to 
be orderly. They are invited to report to the Commis- 
sion in writing any incivility or neglect on the part of 
guides and employees. 



^111 Leases of land will be made annually during 

the month of October for the year beginning the first day 
of April next thereafter and upon the condition "That 
tenants will preserve the present buildings and roads, and 
the present outlines of field and forest, and that they will 
cut only trees or underbrush under such regulations as 
the Commission may prescribe, or designate, and that 
they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, 
monuments or such other artificial works as may be from 
time to time erected by proper authority." All rentals 
shall be payable or secured to be paid for the entire year 
and in advance. Lessees who conduct themselves in a 
manner obnoxious to the United States authority will be 
removed and their leases cancelled. 

PHOTOGRAPHERS. 

XI V To avoid confusion and unseemly controver- 

sies between photographers on the battlefield, it is ordered 
that each of the photographers be prohibited from photo- 
graphing at any locality which under the rule is assigned 
for the week to another photographer, under the penalty 
of being excluded from photographing on the field. 
Approved by the Secretary of War November 25, 190L 

MONUMENTS, MARKERS AND TABLETS. 

X V Inscriptions designed to be placed upon mon- 

uments and tablets erected on the Battlefield of Gettys- 
burg must in all cases be presented to this Commission, 
to be submitted to the Honorable Secretary of War for 
approval before being inscribed thereon. 

Approved by the Secretary of War July 15, 1895. 



yV.Vl Whenever it is proposed to erect any monu- 

ment, marker or other memorial on this field, application 
therefor shall first be made to this Commission, stating the 
intended location, design and specifications of the same, 
including all inscriptions thereon, and it must have the 
approval of this Commission and of the Honorable Sec- 
retary of War; and furthermore, when such proposal 
relates to troops of any state having a state commission, 
the application should be made through said commission 
and must show their approval of the proposed location, 
design, specifications and inscriptions. 

X vll The attempt to commemorate by separate and 

individual monuments, markers or tablets the names 
and deeds of all the men who fought here and all the 
various positions of troops when not engaged, would so 
encumber the Gettysburg National Park as to mar its 
significance. Therefore, monuments, markers and tablets 
for the various commands and bodies of troops shall be 
placed only where needed to indicate their respective 
positions in battle array ; and other positions are to be 
stated in the inscriptions thereon, and those erected in 
honor of individuals shall be limited to officers and 
soldiers who, for a conspicuous and exceptional act of 
heroism, may be deemed by the Secretary of War entitled 
to special commemoration. 

^^ V jJJ. Whereas since the creation of the Gettysburg National 

Park Commission the location of monuments, markers, and tab- 
lets in the Gettysburg National Park has been uniformly restricted 
to the respective positions occupied by the commands and bodies 
of troops in line of battle, and the respective lines of battle have 
thus been clearly defined, and the space between them has been 
and still is unmarked by monument, marker or tablet, the well- 
established and consistently followed plan of the commission 
above indicated is hereby approved and it is directed that hereafter 
no deviation from this plan be made. 



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Other positions occupied by the various commands 
and bodies of troops may be stated in the inscriptions on the 
monuments, markers, and tablets located on the lines of battle. 

Hereafter monuments, markers, or tablets erected in 
honor of individuals shall be limited to officers and soldiers who 
for a conspicuous and exceptional act of heroism may be deemed 
by the Secretary of War entitled to a special commemoration. 

War Department, January 17, 1910. 

The White House, 

January i8, IQIO 

Approved : Approved : 

J. M. Dickinson, Wm. H. Taft. 

Secretary of War. 

./vi^v No monument or marker shall be moved, 

changed, cleaned or repaired except by the National Park 
Commission or under their special direction in writing. 

2v.^ The rate of speed over the avenues for auto- 

mobiles shall not exceed ten miles per hour. 

Battlefield guides accompanying automobiles 
are charged with the speed and conduct of such automo- 
biles, and each guide will be held strictly responsible for 
the conduct and speed of the automobile he accompanies, 
and for any violation of the rules of the Park relating 
thereto. 

John P. Nicholson, 



Ch 



airman. 



Chas. a. Richardson, 
L. L. LoMAx, 

Commissioners. 



War Department, 

September 21, 1911. 

Approved : 

Robert Shaw Oliver, 

Acting Secretary of IV ar. 



